Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Lela Small, Yvonne Ross, Robert Judd, Catherine Peppers,
Directors : Robert A. Endelson,

A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There's a few nasty scene's where the ministers family are being ...

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hands on some important documents which could both make them rich and save ...

Actors : Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Satya Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a ...

Actors : Clara Keller, Werner Hedman, Anne Sparrow, Tony Eades,
Directors : Eduardo Fuller,

Olaf and his mother run a boarding house and a white slavery ring. They also smuggle heroin to keep the addict girls happy so they do not try and escape. A young couple move into the house ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Heidelinde Weis, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is ...

Actors : Gianni Garko, Richard Conte, Henry Silva, Antonia Santilli,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don ...

Actors : Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Lionel Stander, Jerry Orbach,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.

Actors : Ian McShane, Sean Connery, Isabel Dean, Jeffry Wickham,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

A gang of hijackers led by Ray Petrie (Ian McShane) seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik (Sean Connery) is assigned to ...

Actors : Roberto Sosa, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against ...

Actors : James Mason, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Terence Young,

When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

Actors : Barry Newman, Dolph Sweet, John Vernon, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a ...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James,
Directors : Robert Scheerer,

Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get ...

Actors : Louise Lasser, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, James Caan,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to ...

Actors : Trish Van Devere, James Coburn, Walter Pidgeon, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Bruce Geller,

A would-be criminal is taken in by a professional in the game, who teaches him how pickpockets work in teams.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Henri Garcin, Jill Ireland, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Actors : Richard Burton, Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one - after he beds the women he's after, he murders them.

Actors : Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Sverre Holm, Arve Opsahl, Carsten Byhring, Harald Heide-Steen Jr.,
Directors : Ove Kant,

Etter en tid innenfor murene samles banden igjen, men denne gangen kommer det en ung og vakker sosialkurator inn i bildet. Egon forelsker seg og staker ut en ny kurs for banden - fast jobb ...

Actors : Yutaka Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.